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ALBERT J. BATES, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

CELL-CASE MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,621, dated November 3, 1896.

Application filed February 8, 1895. Serial No. 578,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ALBERT J. BATES, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Joliet, in the county of W'ill and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cell-Case Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for manufacturing egg or cell cases, consisting usually of two series of crossing strips of strawboard, paper-board, or other like material.

The object of my invention is to provide an automatic machine of a simple, efficient, and durable construction for manufacturing a particular kind of such egg or cell cases, wherein one series or set of the strawboard strips are provided with a series of central holes or openings through Which the other series or set of strawboard strips are inserted While in a rolled or folded form and then unrolled or unfolded, so that both sets of strips Will stand in vertical planes at right angles to each other, and the one set be inserted through the other at the crossings or intersections of the strips and thus securely locked together, one set of strips being thus threaded, so to speak, upon the other set, and by means of which such cell-cases may be rapidly and cheaply manufactured from continuous rolls or Webs of strawboard, paper-board, or other like material.

To this end my invention consists, primarily, .in the combination with a holder or device, or series of holders or devices, for holding one or all of one set or series of .the strips, (which for convenience I will designate as the cross or transverse series of strips, the same being the series having the central perforations,) of a device or series of devices for holding one or all of the other set of strips (which for convenience I will call the longitudinal set of strips) in a rolled or folded form about their longitudinal axes and guiding the longitudinal set through the central holes or openings of the transverse set when the one lset are moved toward the other for the purpose of inserting the longitudinal strips through the openings in the transverse strips, or threading the transverse strips upon the longitudinal strips, the holder or holders for Vone set or series' of said strips being movable in respect to the other for the purpose of inserting the one set of strips through the other. Preferably one vtransverse holder or holding device is employed for each of the transverse strips composing Lhe cell-case, and one longitudinal holder for each of the longitudinal strips, so

that each and all of the one set of strips may longitudinal strips inserted one by one through the central holes or perforations of the transverse strips, or What it Would be if, for example, but a single transverse holder were employed and the transverse strips threaded upon the longitudinal strips o'neby one. I prefer to mount the transverse stripholders on the stationary frame of the machine and to impart the necessary reciprocating movement to the longitudinal holders. Each of the transverse set or series of stripholders consists, preferably, of a simple guide, slot, or way, equal in Width to the thickness of the straw or paper board of which the transverse strip is formed, the Walls of such guide, slot, or Way being preferablyA formed in a suitable block or blocks, and the Walls of such guide, slot, or Way being preferably substantially.continuous Ain order to insure the proper registry of the longitudinal strips with the transverse strips when the former are inserted through the latter. Each of the holders or devices for holding the longitudinal strip in a rolled or folded form about its longitudinal axis consists, preferably, of a slotted shaft or spindle, by the rotation of which in a suitable chamber or guideway the longitudinal strip may be rolled or folded about its longitudinal axis to adapt it to be inserted through the holes or openings in the transverse strips. and then unrolled or unfolded by the reverse rotation of such slotted shaft or spindle. The guideway or Walls of the chamber which, in connection with the slotted shaft or spindle,

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serves to hold the longitudinal strip in a' rolled or folded form While being inserted through the holes or openings in thetransverse strips is preferably notmade movable A or reciprocating with the slotted shaft or spindle, and is preferably formed in or by the same block or blocks in which the transverse strip-holder slots or guides are formed, the reciprocating movement of the slotted shaft or spindle serving to convey the longitudinal strip through such chamber or guideway and into accurate registry with the transverse strips.

A further feature of myin vention consists, in connection with the transverse holders, guides, or slots for the transverse strips and the longitudinal chambers or guides into which the longitudinal strips are conveyed by the slotted shafts or spindles, in making such transverse holders or guides and such longitudinal chambers or guides bottomless, or, in other words, in providing both and all with discharge passages corresponding in shape to the finished cel1case, so that the iinished cell-case may be ejected from said hold ers or guides, and also, in combination therewith, of ejector-blades reciprocating at right angles to the plane of the finished cell-case.

It also consists in the combination, with the transverse strip-holder and the longitudinal strip-holder, of a device for feeding or conveying the longitudinal strip into the longitudinal holder preparatory to its being rolled or folded thereby to enable it to be inserted through the holes or perforations in the transverse strips.

It also consists in the combination, with two beds or tables arranged at right angles to each other, and along which the two continuous webs of strawboard or paper are fed, of suitable devices for punching or cutting the required holes, slits, or notches in the longitudinal and transverse strips, and for dividing the wide' webs of strawboard or paper in the direction of the length of the webs into strips of the required width, in connection with suitable guides or devices for turning or twisting each of the two sets of strips a quarter-turn, so that both sets of strips will stand in vertical planes, and for spacing the strips or bringing them to the required distance apart to properly enter the holders or devices by which the one set is inserted through the holes or openings in the other.

It also consists in the combination, with a device for feeding forward a continuous web of st-rawboard or paper, of devices for form- A ing and dividing such web into a series of transverse cellstrips having central holes or openings, a series of transverse strip-holders or devices for holding the transverse strips, guides or devices for causing the transverse strips to enter the transverse holders, a device for feeding forward a second web of strawboard or paper to form the longitudinal strips, devices for forming and dividing such second web into a series of longitudinal cellstrips, a series of devices for rolling or folding'said longitudinal cell-strips about their longitudinal axes to adapt the same to enter the h oles or openings in the transverse strips and inserting them through such holes or f perforations.

It also consists in the combination, with a slotted spindle or shaft about which the longitudinal cell-strip may be rolled or folded, of a chamber or guideway surrounding said shaft or spindle by which the longitudinal strip is held in its rolled or folded form while being conveyed through the holes or openings in the transverse strips by the longitudinal or reciprocating movement of said slotted shaft or spindle.

It also consists in the combination, with a slotted shaft or spindle about which the longitudinal strip is rolled or folded, of a guide. way or chamber surrounding such spindle, and a gu-ideway communicating therewith through which the longitudinal strip may be inserted into the slot of the shaft or spindle preparatory to the rolling or folding of the strip about the spindle, and to its being fed forward through such chamber or guideway into and through the holes or openin gs in the transverse strips.

It also consists in the combination, with such slotted shaft or spindle, of a device for pushing or feeding the longitudinal strip into the slot of such shaft or spindle; and it also consists in the novel construction of parts and devices and in the novel combinaoperation of my invention may be embodied in but the nature and principle of my invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art from the construction of the one particular machine which I have illustrated in the drawings, and which I will now proceed to describe in detail in connection with the drawings and the reference-letters and numerals thereon.

In the drawings similar letters and numerals of reference indicate like parts thronghout all the figures.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of the machine. Fig. 2 is a front side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 isa rear side elevation of the same. Fig. l is a sectional elevation of the same on line A A of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional elevation of the machine on line B B of Fig. l, looking toward the right and having the wing of the machine shown at the upper part of the view in Fig. 1 broken away; Fig. 6, a cross-sectional elevation of portions of one side of the machine, taken on line C C, Figs. l, 2, and 3, also showing in full lines parts of the machine located at said Ilo junction; Fig. 7, a detailed sectional view taken through line D D, Fig. G, looking toward the left; Fig. 8, a detailed side View of .mechanism of the machine for reciprocating a sliding carriage and for actuating a sliding rack and pinions mounted on said carriage; Fig. 9, a top view of one of the cell-strip-wrapping shafts of the machine; Fig. 10, a crosssectional view of the upper portion of the machine on line E E of Fig. 1looking toward the right, showing only the immediate parts; Fig. 11, a detailed side view of a portion of one of the roll-housings of the machine and a sectional view of portions of the vroll-adj usting mechanism thereof; Fig.12,a detailed end view of one of the die-tables and punch-head of the machine, having portions shown in section to more clearly show the dies and punches thereof; Fig. 13, a detailed plan of a portion of the machine-dies used for side-notching the cell-strips; Fig. 14, a similar view of a portion of the machine-dies used for perforating the cell-strips; Fig. 15, a side view of a portion ofthe punches and their supportingbar for operating in conjunction with the dies for side-notching the cell-strips; Fig. 16, a similar view of a portion of the punches and their supporting-bar for operating in con j unction with the dies for perforating the cellstrips; Fig. 17, a detailed perspective of one of each of said punches; Fig. 18,' a detailed perspective of that portion of the machine where the case-cells are formed, showing portions of the machine parts broken away and in section t-o more clearly present construction and themanner in which the case-cells are formed; Fig. 19, a detailed perspective of a portion of one cutter-bar guideway of the machine, of a shear-block attached thereto, and of portions of cell-strip guides connected therewith, the same being a portion of the structure shown to the right in Fig. 18; Fig. 20, a detailed perspective of one end portion of one of the primary cell-strip guide-blocks of the machine, showing a shear-plate attached thereto, the same being a portion of the structure shown at the upper part of the View in said Fig. 18; Fig. 21, a detailed perspective of a portion of the structure represented in Fig. 18, showing an advanced-stage of formation of the case-cells; Fig. 22, a detailed sectional View of a portion of the machine at a junction where the ends of the perforated cell-strips are delivered into the cellforming compartment, a side view of a pivoted arm for supporting the ends of certain ones of said strips, and of a traveling rod for actuating said arm; Fig. 23, a perspective view of finished cells, the same being the product of the machine; Fig. 24, a 'detailed cross-sectional view of adjacent side portions of the primary cell-strip guide-blocks of the machine and of the strip-wrapping shafts and strip-delivering blades, representing in section the principal positions of the cell-strips while they are retained between said blocks;

Fig. 25, a view of one end portion of one of the cell-strip-wrapping shafts of the machine and of a portion of a'cell-strip wrapped thereon; Fig. 26, a detailed sectional view of adjacent side portions of the cell-strip guideblocks constituting the cell-forming compartment of the machine, of the strip-wrapping shafts, of a strip-guideway leading to said compartments, of the cell-strip cutter-bar, and of a portion of va perforated strip in said guideway, representing the position of the wrapped strips and of the different stages of unwrapping of the same while in said compartment; Fig. 27, a detailed plan of the-intermittent oscillating head for actuating the cell-strip cutter-bars of the machine and of portions of said cutter-bars; Fig. 28, a side View of one of the spiral cell-strip guides of the machine; Fig. 29, a cross-sectional view of the same; Fig. 30, a side View of one of the notched cell-strips; Fig. 31, a similar view of one of the perforated cell-strips, and Fig. 32 a detailed perspective of one of the guideblocks of the cell-forming compartment of the machine.

My invention relates to a machine for making paper cells used as iillers in shippingcases, which cells are formed by interlocking two series of strips, which series are at right angle to each other and placed with their side will be formed in the opposite set of strips,

and wherein at said compartments the two series of cell-strips arerespectively sheared from said broad strips of punched paper and fed forward, one series direct into a compartment where the cells are formed and one .series to a primary compartment where suitable lengths are severed from the infeeding strips, delivered to wrapping-shafts, which wrap them thereabout and thereafter feed them forward into the cell-forming compartment in their wrapped form through perforations of the former infed strips, where they are unwrapped, thus interlocking them with said perforated strips, the wrapping-shafts withdrawn, the former infed perforated strips severed at their entrance to said compartment, and the cells thus formed ejected from said compartment; and it further consists in the special construction and arrangement of certain parts of the machine structure and in certain special combinations of parts, which improvements are fully set forth and eX- plained in the lfollowing specilication and pointed out in the claims.

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Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the frame of the machine, and by special refercomprises a table 9, supporting thereon a plul 33, fixed to the side l.of blocks 24, as shown in ral-ity of dies 160, as shown at Fig. 14, a corresponding number of punches 161, as shown in Figs. 1-6 and 17, which are supported by a 3 vertically-operative head G2 and operated to work in conjunction with said dies, a pair .of

roll-housings 2, fixed upon the frame, a pair of paper-strip-shearing rolls 3, and a pair .of feed-rolls 4, which rolls are suitably boxed in said housings, as shown, the upper ones of said rolls having their boxes connected with eccentric cross-rods 5 and G, respectively, through the agency of respective links 7 and 8, as a means of vertically adjusting them, by turning said rods by operating their handlevers, geared mechanism for intermittently operating said punches and rotating said rolls, which'will be hereinafter described, and` a series of spiral guides 11 for conducting the strips 12 (which are sheared from the broad strip and 'perforated centrally at intervals, as shown) from said rolls to the cell-forming compartment of the machine.

G represents a second -similar compartment of the machine for punching, shearing, and feeding forward the side-notched cell-strips and comprises a similar die-table 21, supporting thereon a plurality1 of dies 63, as shown in detail in Fig. 13, a corresponding number of punches G5, as shown in Figs. 15 and 17, which are supported by a verticallyoperative head 64 and operated to work in conjunction with said dies, like housings 13,

' like shear-rolls 14, like feed-rolls 15, which pairs of rolls are likewise suitably boxed and in like manner adjusted by means of cross eccentric rods 16 and 17, and connectinglinks 18 and 19, geared mechanism for intermittently operating said punches and rotating said rolls, which will also be hereinafter described, and a series of spiral guides 22 for conducting the strips 23 (which are sheared from the broad strip 2O and side-notched at intervals, as shown) from said rolls to the primary cell-strip compartment of the machine.

H represents the said primary cell-strip compartment, and comprises a series of horizontally-arranged parallel blocks 24, each having vertical recesses, as shown, and supported at each end by being removably seated upon side-bracket lugs 26 (see Fig. 18) of the cross-beams 27 and 28 and held a little distance apart from each other by means of tongues 29 and 30, respectively, of beams 27 28, extending into their end recesses, as shown., so as to form guideways between them to receive and contain the side-notched cellstrips 23 as they are intermittently fed forward from the guides 22 through corresponding openings through beam 27. (See Figs. 4

and 18.) A cutter-bar 31, set with cutter-sections 32, is placed in a horizontal side recess of beam 27, so constructed that thev cutter-sections 32 are alittle distance apart, leaving strip passage-ways between them, which ways register with the spaces between blocks 24,.

and when said. bar is actuated its .cutter-.sections will move to shear with shear-plates Figs. 18 and 20, to sever the infed portions of strips 23 at said shear junctions; stripdelivering blades 34, arranged :to be operated vertically and intermittently between the blocks 24 to engage and force down the severedstrips 23 from their infed position (shown in section .atJ in Fig. 24) to and into the slots of the wrapping-shafts 35, which voperate in ways formed in the lowerside portion! of blocks 24, as shown at K in said Fig. 24, being prevented from dropping down too far by means of cross stop-rods 36, when by a one-half rotation of the said Wrapping-shafts the said strips are wrapped about said :sha-fm, where they are confined by the walls of the wrapping-shaft ways, as shown at L in said Fig. 24, and in such wrapped position they are carried by the travel of said wrappingshafts from said primary compartment through holes in beam 28and into the cellforming compartment of the machine. Said blocks 24 are each made with a separable bottom portion 37, separable on a line central with the wrapping-shaft ways, as represented in Fig. 24, so that their upper portion may be lifted from their seat without removing the said wrapping-shafts.

I represents the cell-formingccmpartment of the machine, and comprises a series of horizontally-arranged parallel blocks 3S, constructed and seated similar to blocks 24, and held so the spaces between them will be in exact line with those of said blocks 24 by mea-mmf.P the tongues 39 4.0, respectively, of cross-beams 28 and 41, between which they are seated, and also provided with wrapping-shaft ways, similar to and in exact line with those of said blocks 24, so that strips 23, while'wrapped about the said wrappin g-shafts 35, maybe delivered to within said compartment I and there confined in their wrapped position until the action of said shafts unwraps them, which is done by a reverse one-half rotation of said shafts, causing the strip edges to be caught, owing to their tendency to spring oif from said shafts, by the stripper edges 42 and 43 (a stripper for each strip edge) and thus IlO vI zo stripped from their said wrapping-shafts, and

into which the perforated cell-strips 12 are fed prior to the carrying forward into said compartment of the strips 23, so their perforations will come to register with the wrapping-shaft ways, thereby causing the incoming wrapped strips 23 to be delivered through the perforations of said strips 12, as represented in Fig. 18, so that when the strips 23 are unwrapped their body parts will be within said perforations and their side notches will register and interlock with strips 12, as represented in Fig. 21, thus interlocking the said two series of strips 12 and 23 and forming the cells, as represented in Fig. 23; and after thus unwrapping the said strips 23 the wrappingshafts 35 are withdrawn from compartment I to bring their slotted portions again to Within the primary compartment H to be in readiness to again receive succeeding strips 23.

The machine is so timed that during the action of the said wrapping-shafts, traveling to and from the cell-forming-compartment I, succeeding strips 23 are fed forward to within the primary compartment H, and as the action of severing them from their infeeding portions takes place a second similar cnt ter-bar 45, having cutter-sections 46, is operated to shear with stationary cutter-blocks 47 at the junction where the perforated cellstrips enter the cell-forming compartment I, (see Fig. 18,) and thereby sever the formed cells from the infeeding-strip portions 12, so the finished cells may be discharged from the machine, which discharging is done bya down movement of a series of blades 48, which operate between the blocks 38, as shown especially in Fig. 18, and which are xed t0 a common head 49 with said primary compartment-blades 34, and said two series of blades are therefore operated)V simultaneously, the blades 34 forcing down 'a set of side-notched strips 23 into the wrapping-shaft slots and the blades 48 forcing down the set of finished cells from said cell-forming compartment, when the said finished set of cells fall upon an inclined chute 50, placed under compartment I, which conducts them from the machine in a finished form, as represented in Fig. 23.

The cutterbar 45 is seated to operate in al side recess of an end cross-block 51, placed at the ent-rance to the cell-forming compartment I, (see Figs. 18 and 19,) to which block the cutter-blocks 47 are attached and to which the spiral strip-guides 11 are connected, as shown in Fig. 19, said block being made with cross-openings, as shown at 52, Fig. 19, and represented in Fig. 18, through which the strips 12 are fed from guides 11 to and between the cutters 45 47 and to within their respective guideway-slits across the under portion of blocks 38. Said cutter-bar 45 further eXtends through an opening of crossbeam 28 and has a portion operating in a way in a side cross-block 53 of the primary compartment H, as represented by dotted lines in Fig. 1 and shown in section in Fig. 5, thus being' placed in a near relative position to an intermittent oscillating head, (shown at 54 inr Figs. 1, 3, 18, and 27,) which head has secured therein side-extending arms 55 and 56,V the arm 55 extending to the end portion of cutter bar 31 into an openin g thereof, as shown in Fig. 27 and represented by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the arm 56 extending at right angle from said former arm, through an opening of cross-block 53 of primary compartment H, to and into an opening of the end portion of cutter-bar 45, as also represented in Figs. 1 and 27, thereby jointly connecting said cutter-bars, so that at each actuation of head 54, which is imparted thereto, both said cutter-bars will be actuated to shear with their respective shear parts to sever the cellstrips, as described, and again resume their idle position so succeeding cell-strips may be fed forward between their cutters.

The form of the wrapping-shafts 35 is shown in Fig. 9, their slotted end portion, excepting a short end portion, being reduced in diameter, so that the diameter of the strips 23, wrapped thereabout, as represented in Figs. 24, 25, and 26, will be no greater than the remaining port-ion of the shafts, and therefore be`protected and confined during the travel from the primary to the cell-forming compartments of the machine. Said reduced portions are further made with segmental anges 57, which, when the strips are wrapped thereabout, come within certain of the strip side notches to aid in properly holding the strips in position during their travel from the former to the latter compartments, and du ring such travel the ends of said shafts, being in part of a diameter sufficient to fill their ways through cross-beam 28 and bel tween blocks 38 of the cell-forming compartment I, properly guide the movement of travel and prevent excessive friction of the stripsV in said ways, and, further, said shaft ends, when to their full forward movement, enter holes of cross-beam 41. (See Figs. 4 and 21.) In entering said wrapping-shafts to the primary compartment H-they are placed through holes in cross-beam 27, as shown'in Figs. 4 and 8, and, further, said shafts are each made with an annular flange 58 a distance from the end which extends from beam 27, and with a pinion 59 at said end, and are jointly boxed between said flanges and pinions to a traveling carriage 60, which travelsA -upon flanged ways of the machine-frame, as shown, so that said pinions are brought to mesh with a common cross-toothedrack 61, which is arranged to be operated in a crossguideway of said carriage, and when operated will jointly rotate said wrapping-shafts sufficient to wrap and unwrap the cell-strips 23. Both pairs of the shear-rolls 3 and 14 of the machine are made with ann ular shear-flanges, as shown, which are arranged to shear those of one roll with those of the fellow roll in the manner usual with such rolls to longitudinally cut the broad paper strips 10 and 21 into the IOO IIO

series of cell-strips of proper uniform width, as represented, and should the said broad strips contain in their width more than is necessary to make the cell-strips the surplus is sheared oi by the outer cutters and discharged to one side of the machine as waste.

The die-table 9 is nxed to frame 1 and supports a set of dies 160, equal in number to the number of perforations in a set of cellstrips 12, which dies are suitably held in proper position upon said table, so as to register with openings through said table for the discharge of the punch-chips, and iixed to each side of said table is a post G6, which form vertical guides for the vertically-operative punchhead G2, and the arrangement of the said punches and dies is such that at the junction of two strip-sections the notches and perforations are closer together than at other portions, which is for the purpose of bringing the two notches and perforati'ons of each strip, which, by infeeding operation, come yto rest adjacent the strip severing or cutting off junction, so the severing of the finished cells will take place midway between said two notches and perforations, so the ends of the said strips of each set of cells will be sufficiently short for proper service in shippingcases. (See Figs. 23 and 31.)

The spiral guides 1l each comprise two spirally-twisted plates, one of which is grooved to accommodate the passage of the cell-strips 12, (see Figs. 2S and 29,) and the two parts are secured together, one endb'eing reduced to a width corresponding with the width of said strips, so they may be placed side by side upon a cross-rod similar to that shown in section at 67,- Fig. 4, which is supported by the roll-housings, and so each of said guides will be in line with the strip it guides. (See Figs. 1 and 4.) The opposite ends of said guides are each made with a notch (i8 (see Fig. 28) 'and are 'pla-ced in recesses 69 of compartmentblock 51, with their notches 68 registering with an upextendi'ng portion of said block, as shown at 70, Fig. 19, thus removably seating said guides.

The die-table 2l is likewise fixed to frame 1 and supports a set of dies 63, equal in numbe'r to the number of side notches in a set of cell-strips 23, which dies are likewise suitably held in proper position upon said table, so as to register with openings through said table for the discharge of punch-chips, (see Figs. 4L and 12,) and fixed to each side of said table is a post 71, which forms vertical guides for the vertically-operative punch-head 64, and the arrangement of said punches and dies is such as to side-notch the strips 23 to perfectly correspond with the perforated strips 12, so that cells of equal sides will be formed by the interlocking of the two series of strips', and so the ends of cell-strips 23 will be correspondingly short in a finished set of cells.

The spiral guides 22 are of like form and supported at their roll end in like manner as guides 11 and also removably connected with Vcrossbea1n 27 in like manner as the guides 11 are connected with compartment-block 51, and the spiral form of each said set of guides being for the purpose of turning the several cell-strips from their horizontal position at the rolls to a vertical and proper position for entering their compartments.

In operation of the machine it is demonstrated that certain of the cell-strips 12, in entering compartment I, have a tendency to come below theirproper position at their ends, caused by the diverging position and spiral formof the guides at the inner side of the machine, where the said strips are conducted forward to said compartment I, which diverging position, which is necessary to properly separate the strips so as to be the required distance apart, strains the strips in one side of said spiral guides more than at the opposite side, and hence causes the strips to emerge from said guides slightly curved edgewise, and therefore when the said strips have fully entered said compartment such slightlycurved form will cause their ends to come bel'ow their proper relative position in the ways of said compartment, and as a means of holding said strip ends up so their perforations will properly register with the wrapping-shaft ways, a holdingarm 7 5 is, by means of a pin 76, pivoted in a bottom recess 77 of cross-beam 28, so that when not in service it will hang by gravity, and so a ro'd 78, connected with and operated by carriage 60', through a hole of the cross-beam 27 and said recess of beam 28, will engage and throw up said arm to a horizontal holding position nn- 'der said strip ends, as shown.

The fellow spiral guides at the `outer 'side of the machinealso slightly curve the strips, which are conducted therethrough edgewise, but in they opposite direction from those at said inner side, and hence are, when entered into said compartment l, held down into proper position by the upper walls of their ways in said compartment, and therefore require no actuated mechanism to bring them down at their end.

The drive-shaft of the machine is repreL sented at 79, supported in boxes in the main body of the machine-frame, and has placed thereon at the machine front a tight drive,- pulley S0 and a loose pulley 81, vand has nxed thereonbetween the frame sides the latch-arm S2, the peripheral cam 83, and the side-channeled cam 84C, and also has fixed on its end, at the rear side of the machine, a combined side-channeled cam and crank-disk 85, which' carries on its crankstud a traveling block Across the lower part of the machine-frame is boxed a shaft S7, which has placed thereon at its end at the rear side of the machine the arm SS of a toothed segment S9, which arin is slotted to form a traverse-way for the crank traveling block SG of disk S5, so that said arm and segment will be operated by the operation of said disk.

represents a shaft boxed in the rear side 'part of the machine-frame and in the upper end of a bracket-arm 91, (see Fig. 6,) and has sleeved thereon between said bearings a toothed gear-wheel 92, arranged in mesh with segment 89, the hub of which gear is made with a terminal ange 93, having a single ratchet-tooth, as shown in Fig. 7, and placed within the flange of a head 94, which is xed to shaft 90, and is provided with a springpawl 95,arran ged to engage said ratchet-tooth,

the said pawl being set so a down movement of segment S9 will cause gear 92 to rotate so its hub-flange ratchet-tooth will engage said pawl and thereby cause head 94 and shaft 90 to be rotated, (the said movement being such as to give one complete rotation to shaft 90,) and so an up movement of said segment will cause said gear to rotate idly.

The head 94 is made with two oppositelyfacing peripheral oifsets 96 and 97, offset 96 being for the registry of a spring-top arm 98, which is attached to bracket-arm 91, and offset 97 being for the registration of a pivoted stop-arm 99, which is pivoted to the end of shaft 87 adjacent at the side of segment-arm SS, and when the head 94 has rotated its full rotation it will be brought to a position (shown in detail in Fig. 7) where the two arms 98 99 will register with their respective offsets 96 97 and thus lock the shaft 90 against further movement, when a stop 100 of' said arm 89 will engage under pivoted arm 99 and lift it from the offset of head 94, ,and a partial down movement of segment-arm 88 will be made and thus start'head 94 on its succeeding rotation by the action of the segment 89, the gear 92, and thek pawl-andratchet mechanism before said stop permits said arm 99 to lower sufficiently to again engage the head 94.

In Fig. the segment 89 is represented as on its down movement and the head 94 as about one-half way about during its rotation. 101 represents ashat't boxed to and supported across the lower part of the machine-frame and has placed thereon a segment-arm 102, having a toothed segment 103, placed in mesh with a toothed rack 104 of the machine sliding carriage 60, (see Fig. 4,) and said segmentarm is further provided with a traverseway, as shown. Fixed on the inner end of shaft 90 at the side of said segment-arm is a crank 105, having a traverse-block 106, placed to operate in said arm-traverse way, so the movement of said crank will operate said segment-arm and segment and thus reciprocate said carriage 60, which reciprocation is intermittent, owing to the fact that crank 105 is idle during each one-half rotation of the machine, and in said Fig. 4 said crank is representedas makingits revolution and at a position about one-half Way around. Therefore the carriage is given a forwardand-back movement during said one-half rotation of the machine, and during that time the wrapping-shafts deliver the wrapped cell-strips 23 from compartment H to comping-shafts in compartment H so succeeding strips 23 are then forced down into their slots, the rack 61 actuated to operate the wrapping-shaft pinions 59,'and thus wrap the said strips ready to be delivered to the cellforming compartment I, as stated. Depending from carriage 60 are arms 107, which carry a bell-crank lever 108, which connects with rack 61 at its upper end so as to reciprocate said rack, and is at its lower side-extending end in line with an arm 109, which is pivoted to the inner side of the machineframe, and which arm 109 is alsoin line with and adapted to be engaged by the latch-arm S2 of drive-shaft 79, and when carriage 60 is forward and the wrapping-shafts are within the cell-forming compartment I, which time is at the one-half turn of crank 105, as shown in Fig. 4,1atch-arm 82 engages pivoted arm 109 and throws said arm 109 up, which engages against the side-extending portion of bellcrank lever 10S and operates said lever to actuate the rack 61 and thus operate the Wrapping-shaft pinions 59 and wrapping-shafts to unwrap the cell-strips within the cell-formin g compartment. Y Said unwrapping operation is performed in a very small fraction of the revolution of the machine, which becomes necessary, as the same mustbe performed during the time the said wrapping-shafts are at a stand within the cell-forming compartment, which is only at the time the crank 105 is passing the dead-center point in the traverse-way of segment-arm 102, and by reference to Fig. Sit will be observed that at such required operation the bell-crank lever 10Sis in close proximity to pivoted arm 109, and at that time latch-arm 82 engages arm 109, and

during a small fraction of the rotation of said latch-arm it engages and-throws up said arm 109, which in turn throws up the lower branch of said bell-crank lever and thus actuates the toothed rack 61 one way, and as a means of preventing said rack from being actuated at other times a bar 110 is attached to crossbeam 27 in such manner as to extend horizontally over one side of carriage 60 and under one end portion of said rack, (see Figs. l, 8, and 10,) and is provided with a cross-recess 111 in its upper side at the junction where said described actuation of said rack takes place, and said rack is provided with a depending pin 112, which at other position of Y IOO IOS

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